ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Hadi al-Amiri, leader of Iraq’s Iran-backed Badr Organization, on Friday urged Islamic Resistance groups to “postpone” any planned retaliatory action againt the deadly US-Saudi strike on Iraq “for the sake of Iraq’s higher interest.”

On July 29, the Saudi defense ministry and US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced they had coordinated to carry out large-scale strikes against militias in Iraq allegedly responsible for attacks on Saudi oil facilities in the days before, accusing the factions of acting at the behest of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The strikes targeted several bases of the state-integrated but Iran-backed paramilitary umbrella group, the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), across seven provinces of Iraq, killing at least 20 fighters and injuring 32 others.

“I appeal to my sons and brothers in the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, the heroic mujahideen, to postpone any reaction against the American-Saudi aggression that targeted Iraq, and to bear the pain for the sake of Iraq’s higher interest,” said Amiri in a video statement published in the early hours of Friday.

The message from the veteran Iran-aligned Iraqi figure came amid circulating reports of a potential re-escalation between the armed factions and Saudi Arabia.

Hadi al-Amiri, leader of Iraq’s Iran-backed Badr Organization, published a video message in the early hours of Friday urging Islamic Resistance groups to “postpone” any planned retaliatory action againt the deadly US-Saudi strike on Iraq “for the sake of Iraq’s higher interest.” pic.twitter.com/sIuhD8rOrc

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Reuters, citing a senior Saudi official who spoke on condition of anonymity, reported early Friday that Saudi, American, and other Middle Eastern countries’ intelligence suggests that an attack could be launched “soon” coordinated between Yemen’s Houthis and Iraq’s pro-Iran militias targeting “Saudi civilian sites including energy infrastructure, ports, and airports.”

In messages conveyed to Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi through mediators, Saudi Arabia has accused the Badr Organization and Kataib Hezbollah, the most influential and organized Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite armed groups, of being behind the attacks targeting the country’s oil facilities in recent weeks, senior PMF officials told The New Region.

Amiri has reportedly “vehemently” rejected the accusations.

“We promise all the mujahideen that we will pursue the rights of the martyrs and the wounded through diplomatic channels, and God willing, we will achieve all of that,” Amiri added in the video message.

The Badr Organization’s armed wing was integrated into Iraq’s security forces after 2003 and later formed the backbone of the Popular Mobilization Commission (PMC), established in 2014 as a government body covering volunteers and armed factions that fought the Islamic State (ISIS) alongside Iraqi security forces.

Despite its deep and public ties to Iran’s IRGC, the organization and its leadership have been careful to keep their fighters from playing any overt role in operations attributed to other Iranian-backed Iraqi armed factions against US forces and interests in Iraq and the region.

In an interview with Iraqi state media a day after the US-Saudi attack, Iraqi government spokesperson Haider al-Aboudi said the Saudi claims of Iran-aligned groups targeting Saudi oil facilities from Iraqi territory “were not proven true” by the investigative committees formed to probe the incident.